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Course overview
Introduction to LOTO
Most equipment-related injuries during maintenance come down to one thing: someone assumed a machine was off when it wasn't. Lockout Tagout is the discipline that closes that gap — physically isolating and confirming zero energy before anyone puts their hands on a machine. This one-day course at Elite Offshore Pvt Ltd in Navi Mumbai is built around OSHA's Control of Hazardous Energy standard, 29 CFR 1910.147, and trains your team to apply it the way it's meant to be applied — not just read about it.
LOTO Equipment and Tools
Padlocks, tags, hasps — the equipment itself isn't complicated. Where people get it wrong is knowing which device fits which situation: a hasp for a job with four people on the same machine, a flexible cable lockout for equipment tucked into a tight space, a plug lockout for something that just needs to stay unplugged. We work through the standard devices used on valves, circuit breakers, and electrical plugs, and we don't skip the awkward cases that don't show up in a textbook diagram.
LOTO Procedures
The order matters. First, find every energy source on the machine — not just the obvious electrical feed, but stored pressure, trapped hydraulic fluid, a spring under tension. Then isolate each one, lock it, tag it, and — this is the step that gets rushed on real job sites — test it before anyone assumes it's safe. We treat that last step as the whole point of the exercise, because a lockout nobody verified isn't really a lockout.
Compliance and Safety Standards
This course follows OSHA's 29 CFR 1910.147 hazardous energy control guidelines. To be clear about what that means: OSHA doesn't issue formal approval or certification to training providers for LOTO — there's no such badge to earn. What the standard actually requires is that workers receive proper, documented training, and that's what this course provides. Participants receive a certificate of completion, which your company can keep on file to demonstrate the training requirement has been met.
By the end of the day, participants can do more than describe a lockout procedure on paper — they can walk up to a piece of equipment they've never seen before and isolate it correctly, which is the only test that actually counts.
What will I learn?
- 1. Why unexpected machine start-up during maintenance is one of the most common — and most preventable — causes of serious workplace injury
- 2. What OSHA 29 CFR 1910.147 actually requires, and how it applies to day-to-day maintenance work
- 3. The difference between authorized, affected, and other employees, and what each role is responsible for during a lockout
- 4. How padlocks are used to physically secure an energy-isolating device
- 5. What information a tag needs to carry — name, date, reason for lockout — and why that detail matters on a live worksite
- 6. Using multi-lock hasps when more than one person is working on the same piece of equipment
- 7. Devices used to lock out valves, circuit breakers, and electrical plugs
- 8. Flexible lockout devices for equipment tucked into tight or awkward spaces
- 9. How to identify every energy source on a machine — electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and the less obvious ones like stored spring tension
- 10. Communicating the shutdown to everyone affected before work begins
- 11. Safely shutting down machinery step by step
- 12. Isolating each energy source until the equipment reaches a true zero-energy state
- 13. Correctly placing lockout devices so the machine can't be accidentally re-energized
- 14. Securing devices so they can't be removed by anyone without the right key
- 15. Testing the equipment to confirm no energy remains before maintenance work starts
- 16. Keeping workers safe throughout the servicing period, not just at the start
- 17. Properly removing tools and materials from the work area once the job is complete
- 18. Correctly removing locks and tags as part of the release process
- 19. Notifying affected employees once lockout/tagout has been lifted and normal operation can resume
- 20. What to do when a lock needs to be removed in an emergency and the original worker isn't available
Requirements
- - Who it's for: Maintenance technicians, electricians, plant operators, and supervisors working around machinery with stored or active energy — industrial, offshore, or oil & gas settings.
- - Education: A high school diploma or equivalent is enough — this is a practical, competency-based course, not an academic one.
- - Experience: Prior industrial or maintenance experience helps but isn't required. The course works whether you're new to LOTO or you've been doing informal lockouts for years without formal training.
- - Language: Instruction is in English, so participants should be comfortable following spoken and written instructions in English.
- - Age: Participants should be at least 18 years old.
Curriculum for this course
2 Lessons
08:00:00 Hours
E-Learning
2 Lessons
00:00:00 Hours
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Lockout Tagout E-learning Course
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Final Assessment
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